I have done it now. You will not believe it but I finally gave in and bought a Hobie 16. I have been working on improving the design of new racing catamarans for years now and it's time for me to concentrate on becoming a better sailor and racer myself. The more I thought about how to achieve this goal the more it became clear that I needed to start racing in a competitive one-design class that would force me to master the fundamentals.
I have a lot of work to do before the Europeans in August. My goal is to make the Gold fleet but I may be dreaming.

Wow! where are the locusts, is my oldest brother ok? Can somebody check on the Nile? Anybody else smell sulphur?

Wouter did you change your screen name to something more phonetically understandable? Does the "W" make a "V" sound in Dutch?

I heard that was going to be the last major H16 regatta before Hobie release their F16.

There's something fishy here,
or maybe it's just me working 'till 4 am...
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Wait a minute. Wooter only has 4 posts.

Who's trying to be clever?

Rick/Mary needs to step in and delete that. So what you want about W but that is plainly malicious.

Can someone say April Fool.Whoever it is got me,until I looked at the identity spelling

I'm going to name her Hell Cat.

The odometer turned over.

Woot, Woot, Woot Woot, Woot, Woot, Woot, Woot, Woot, Wooty!

Actually it is 3:45 am but I've created a technology that allows me to post on Cat Sailor as I dream about it. See my reference to dreaming in the first post.

April 1st comes early in Europe.

Nope, gotta be BS, the registration numbers are different and the "real" Woot still shows like 7k posts.

duh how many times do folks have to say it "april fool "

Nice one. You had me there for a bit, then it all got too strange!

Don't impersonate me, you very unsympathetic person.

There is line of decency to be observed here.

Wouter

I've been sick of all the April fool's internet news since last night - but that one got me wondering why my catsailor filter stopped working...good one!

is it not the case as some believe that you fiendishly stole the identity of wooter and have been posting in these forums for years trying to make a fool of poor ole wooter The respected cat sailor from Nederlands , not the raving loony you portray him as .

Tis it not his decency that has led him to keep your treachery quiet














are you related to doug lord in Sailing anarchy forum , you would seem to have popped out the same egg or test tube

Wouter, I sincerely hope your response was in jest, otherwise I have two words for you: LIGHTEN UP!!!

Before I even saw the "impostor's" name spelling, it was very obvious that it was a joke, and it was pretty funny, if only because we know it would never happen.

Usually you respond better than this.

Mike